Department of Transportation

Martin (Marty) Holst - Manager of Transportation and
Waste Management
Office: 780 891-3778
Fax: 780 891-4284
Cell: 780 891-8157
Toll Free: 1-888-891-3778
Email: m.holst@mdopportunity.ab.ca

Road Maintenance

Paved Roads = 52.4 Km

Graveled Roads = 212.6 Km

• Gravelling
• Grading
• Dust Control
• Snow Plowing/Sanding
• Grass cutting
• Paving and Signage

• Grass cutting
• Lighting Repairs & Replacements
• Snow Removal and Ice Control
• The MD maintains 5 airstrips which is the most in Western Canada.

• Landfills are in Wabasca and Red Earth Creek.
• Transfer sites are in Calling Lake, Sandy Lake, Chip Lake, Trout Lake and Peerless Lake.
• Commercial and residential garbage is picked up weekly by the MD and contracted services. Garbage is sorted at each site and recorded by the attendants.
• Refuse from the transfer sites is stored in 40 yard bins which are picked up and transported to the main landfill sites with our Bin Trucks.

• Hamlet Clean up is scheduled in mid May, one day out of the month staff and volunteers pitch in and clean up the hamlet, a barbeque is held at the end of the day for all volunteers.
• Our spring clean-up program is very successful, each year in May we advertise to residents to assist in hauling bigger items to the landfills. Release and Waivers must be signed by landowners.
• All Landfills and transfer sites are open extra hours for the month of May to accommodate residents for spring clean up.
• Download the Residential Hamlet Spring Clean Up Policy here

• Recycling bins are set up at all sites and are open to residents.
• Once the recycle bins are full they are then transported to appropriate recycling plants.

• Animal Control stores animals in kennels that are set up at our landfill and transfer sites.
• Our landfill attendants, with the help of our laborers, maintain the kennels and keep the animals fed while they wait to be transferred or adopted.
• If interested in adopting an animal please visit the landfill kennel or contact the Second Chance Animal Rescue Society (SCARS), the animal rescue group that finds homes for many of the animals left at our kennel www.scars.ca

• Hauling Wood
• General Repairs
• Brushing
• Cutting Grass
• Tilling Sand
• Raking
• Garbage Collection